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Influence of Parental Involvement on Academic Achievement of Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Oluremi, Dorcas Musa, Devan |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | The study examined the influence of parental involvement on academic performance of their wards in schools. The study also determined the home and the school factors that could influence academic achievement of students. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the students was 11,745 .Sample size of 400 was drawn by stratified sampling technique. A self-developed instrument titled ‘Parental Involvement as a Correlate of Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students’ (PICAASSS) was used to collect data. The validity of the research instrument was carried out by two experts both in Counselling Psychology and Test and Measurement. Reliability was ascertained using test re-test method and the reliability co-efficient was 0.89. Data were analyzed using mean, Pearson moment correlation co-efficient and t-test statistics. The study revealed that the junior secondary school students in Hong Local Government performed below average in Mathematics, English and Integrated Science which could be as a result of lack of parental involvement. It showed the home factors that can influence the low academic achievement of junior secondary school students include inability of parents to check their school note books, lack of time to find out what they do in school on daily bases, lack of assistance from parents in helping their wards to do home assignment and inability of parents to engage coaching teachers for their children. The study established that the school factors that influence academic achievement of junior secondary school students include parents attending PTA meetings, purchase of recommended textbooks, love of parents to find out about their children friends, attendance of parents in the events that are organized in school, parents asking teachers about how their wards are getting along with their classmates, frequent visitation of parents to class teachers and subject teachers to find out the behaviour of their wards, parents frequent payment of their children’s tuition fee as at when due, regular visit of parents to school to verifiy if their children are in school, parents interacting with teachers on phone to find out whether their children attend school, and parents financially support to school project. There was a significant relationship between the level of parental involvement and students’ academic achievement. There was also a significant relationship between home level and school level parental involvement in students’ academic achievement. Based on the findings, the study concluded that parental involvement significantly contributed to junior secondary school students’ achievement in English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science. It was recommended that parent should be involved in school matters like Parents Teachers Association (PTA) meetings, seminars and conferences should also be frequently organized for teachers. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.jesoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/KC10-3_205.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
